# Desktop app getting content from a web server

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/desktop-app-getting-content-from-a-web-server/214051
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**Created:** [January 25, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/desktop-app-getting-content-from-a-web-server/214051 "2007-01-25T04:21:56Z")
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### Author: ![koolkrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@koolkrasher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/koolkrasher)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/desktop-app-getting-content-from-a-web-server/214051/1 "2007-01-25T04:21:56Z")

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i am working on a desktop app and i wont it to read a file from a web server and display the info from the file xml or txt. which would give me the least amount of problems the txt file or the xml file? also i think there is a security issue doing this…

any help would be appreciated  
kool